TY - JOUR AU - Artico, Simara AU - Amaral, Karine Medeiros AU - Gonçalves, Candice Beatriz Treter AU - Picon, Paulo Dornelles PY - 2012 DA - 2012/12/27 TI - The effectiveness of retreatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin in patients with chronic viral hepatitis C genotype 2 and 3: a prospective cohort study in Brazil JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 377 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - More than 50% of patients infected with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) do not respond to treatment with conventional interferon (IFN) combined with ribavirin (RBV). The aim of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of retreatment with peginterferon alfa-2a or 2b (PEG-IFN 2a or 2b) concomitantly with RBV in patients with HCV genotype 2 and 3, which were non-responders or relapsers to initial treatment with IFN / RBV and to identify possible predictors of sustained virological response (SVR). SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-377 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-12-377 ID - Artico2012 ER -